A Peace to End All Peace The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

by Fromkin, David

• ISBN13: 9780805088090
• ISBN10: 0805088091
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-21
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

With A New Afterword from the Author the Classic, Bestselling Account of How the Modern Middle East was Created

Author Biography

David Fromkin is a professor at Boston University and the author of several acclaimed books of nonfiction, including The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	p. 1
Photo Credits	p. 2
Acknowledgments	p. 3
A Note on Spelling	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
At the Crossroads of History
The Last Days of Old Europe	p. 23
The Legacy of The Great Game in Asia	p. 26
The Middle East Before The War	p. 33
The Young Turks Urgently Seek an Ally	p. 45
Winston Churchill on The Eve of War	p. 51
Churchill Seizes Turkey's Warships	p. 54
An Intrigue at the Sublime Porte	p. 62
Kitchener of Khartoum Looks Ahead
Kitchener Takes Command	p. 79
Kitchener's Lieutenants	p. 88
Kitchener Sets out to Capture Islam	p. 96
India Protests	p. 106
The Man in The Middle	p. 111
Britain Is Drawn into the Middle Eastern Quagmire
The Turkish Commanders Almost Lose The War	p. 119
Kitchener Allows Britain to Attack Turkey	p. 124
On to Victory at the Dardanelles	p. 130
Russia's Grab for Turkey	p. 137
Defining Britain's Goals in the Middle East	p. 146
At the Narrows of Fortune	p. 150
The Warriors	p. 155
The Politicians	p. 159
The Light That Failed	p. 163
Creating the Arab Bureau	p. 168
Making Promises to the Arabs	p. 173
Making Promises to the European Allies	p. 188
Turkey's Triumph at the Tigris	p. 200
Subversion
Behind Enemy Lines	p. 207
Kitchener's Last Mission	p. 216
Hussein's Revolt	p. 218
The Allies at the Nadir of Their Fortunes
The Fall of the Allied Governments: Britain and France	p. 231
The Overthrow of the Czar	p. 239
New Worlds and Promised Lands
The New World	p. 253
Lloyd George's Zionism	p. 263
Toward The Balfour Declaration	p. 276
The Promised Land	p. 284
Invading the Middle East
Jerusalem for Christmas	p. 305
The Road To Damascus	p. 315
The Battle for Syria	p. 332
The Spoils of Victory
The Parting of the Ways	p. 351
By The Shores of Troy	p. 363
The Tide Goes Out
The Ticking Clock	p. 383
Betrayal	p. 389
The Unreal World of the Peace Conferences	p. 403
Storm over Asia
The Troubles Begin: 1919-1921	p. 415
Egypt: The Winter of 1918-1919	p. 417
Afghanistan: The Spring of 1919	p. 421
Arabia: The Spring of 1919	p. 424
Turkey: January 1920	p. 427
Syria and Lebanon: The Spring and Summer of 1920	p. 435
Eastern Palestine (Transjordan): 1920	p. 441
Palestine-Arabs and Jews: 1920	p. 445
Mesopotamia (IRAQ): 1920	p. 449
Persia (Iran): 1920	p. 455
Russia Returns to the Middle East
Unmasking Britain's Enemies	p. 465
The Soviet Challenge in the Middle East	p. 471
Moscow's Goals	p. 475
A Death in Bukhara	p. 480
The Middle Eastern Settlement of 1922
Winston Churchill Takes Charge	p. 493
Churchill and the Question of Palestine	p. 515
The Alliances Come Apart	p. 530
A Greek Tragedy	p. 540
The Settlement of the Middle Eastern Question	p. 558
Afterword to the 2009 Edition	p. 569
Notes	p. 577
Bibliography	p. 615
Index	p. 629
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